Following their long-standing tradition of performing a weekend of spectacularly glitter-filled, loud-and-proud, queer plays for Pride month, The Neo-Futurists present The Infinite Wrench Gets Prideful: 30 Queer Plays in 60 Straight Minutes. The online show of all-new works will be live-streamed on the Twitch platform on Thursday, June 25 at 8 p.m. Proceeds will benefit Brave Space Alliance, the first Black- and trans-led LGBTQ center located on the South Side of Chicago.
The Neo-Futurists are proud to announce four new Ensemble members will make their debut in the Pride show: Cat Huck, Abby Pajakowski, Ale Ramirez and Annie Share. The new members will also join the current Ensemble in ongoing, ever-changing performances of The Infinite Wrench Goes Viral beginning this summer.
“Our Ensemble-led company welcomes Cat, Abby, Ale and Annie into the fold as we continue to transform our art-making under the constraints of COVID-19,” said Artistic Director Kirsten Riiber. “We have entered a new chapter of the Neo-Futurist experimentation, and we’re thrilled they’ll be joining us for the ride.”
For more information on The Infinite Wrench Gets Prideful: 30 Queer Plays in 60 Straight Minutes, visit neofuturists.org. Tickets go on sale Monday, June 15.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Neo-Futurist Theater has moved its flagship show The Infinite Wrench to a digital platform, now called The Infinite Wrench Goes Viral, presenting 30 digital plays in 60 minutes each week. The Neo-Futurist ensemble of writer-performers continue to work from home and produce new plays weekly, which are then filmed and shared with patrons who subscribe via the Patreon platform. Tickets start at just $3 per week, with subscribers choosing their donation level.
ABOUT THE NEO-FUTURIST THEATER
Since 1988, The Neo-Futurist Theater has been a collective of writer-director-performers who create theater that is a fusion of sport, poetry and living newspaper. The company has created more than 11,000 plays to date within its flagship late-night event called The Infinite Wrench, and more than 65 full-length mainstage productions incorporating its signature non-illusory, interactive style of performance. From humble beginnings launching the first late-night theater production in Chicago, The Neo-Futurist Theater created what became the city’s longest-running show and has grown to become one of the most highly regarded experimental theater companies in the United States, with sister companies in San Francisco and New York. For more information, visit www.neofuturists.org.
The Neo-Futurist Theater is partially supported by grants from Alphawood Foundation Chicago, Paul M. Angell Foundation, Arts Work Fund, Do312, The Chicago Community Foundation, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The Illinois Arts Council Agency, The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, and The National Endowment for the Arts.